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Hinduism

The world's oldest living tradition, and one that resists being a single thing.

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The River

Jean Renoir · 1951

Jean Renoir’s 1951 Technicolor drama, adapted from Rumer Godden’s novel, follows Harriet, an English teenager in colonial Bengal, as she navigates first love, sibling rivalry, and sudden loss. Shot on location in Calcutta with non-professional actors and muted, reflective cinematography by Claude Renoir, the film unfolds in unhurried, poetic episodes centred on the river as both setting and silent witness. Its power lies in restraint: in what is withheld, observed, and allowed to linger.

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Sometimes Happiness Sometimes Sadness

Karan Johar · 2001

Sometimes Happiness Sometimes Sadness (2001) is a Hindi-language family drama directed by Karan Johar, following the Raichand family across Delhi, London, and Cairo. When adopted son Rahul marries outside his class, his father Yash disowns him, triggering a decade-long estrangement. His younger brother Rohan engineers a reunion, culminating in public apology and dual weddings. Anchored by performances from Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, and Kajol, the film uses music, costume, and ritual to explore inheritance, visibility, and the slow labour of belonging.

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20th Century Women

Mike Mills · 2016

Set in 1979 Santa Barbara, Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women follows 15-year-old Jamie as his single mother Dorothea enlists two younger women — photographer Abbie and teenage friend Julie — to help raise him. Anchored by Annette Bening’s restrained performance, the film observes their overlapping lives with warmth and precision, treating feminism, illness, ageing and adolescence as lived conditions rather than themes. Shot by Sean Porter and edited by Leslie Jones, it moves at the pace of real conversation, building meaning through accumulation rather than climax.

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24 Frames

Abbas Kiarostami · 2017

Abbas Kiarostami’s final film, 24 Frames, comprises twenty-four uncut, static shots — each ninety seconds long — observing nature, animals, and thresholds between interior and exterior. Beginning with animated movement superimposed on Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow, it proceeds into real-world stillness, testing how much meaning resides in time, attention, and unmediated presence. Released posthumously at Cannes 2017, it is a rigorous, unsentimental essay on perception and impermanence.

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3:10 to Yuma

Delmer Daves · 1957

Delmer Daves’ 1957 Western 3:10 to Yuma adapts Elmore Leonard’s taut short story into a study of obligation under pressure. Rancher Dan Evans agrees to escort outlaw Ben Wade to the 3:10 train for Yuma, facing ambush, betrayal, and his own wavering resolve. Shot by Charles Lawton Jr. with sun-bleached realism and scored sparingly by George Duning, the film builds suspense through pacing, performance, and moral granularity — not spectacle. It was preserved by the Library of Congress in 2012 for its cultural and aesthetic significance.

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3 Women

Robert Altman · 1977

Robert Altman’s 1977 film 3 Women follows the uncanny merging of identities among a timid young woman, her garrulous roommate and a silent, pregnant artist in a sun-scorched California town. Built from a dream and shot with deliberate, unhurried precision, it uses repetition, reflection and improvisation to explore how selves are borrowed, performed and abandoned.